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020			_a9781350566422
082			_a335.4119 ZIZ
100			_aZizek, Slavoj
245			_aQuantum history: a new materialist philosophy
260			_aLondon: _bBloomsbury Academic, _c2025
300			_aviii, 443p.: _bill.: _c24cm.
504			_aIncludes Notes and Index.
520			_aA panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History, Slavoj Žižek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality and political possibility. Taking up Lenin's challenge to radically reconsider materialism in the wake of each big scientific discovery, and rejecting the recent vogue for giving a vague spiritualist spin to wave mechanics, Žižek embraces the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics with characteristic erudition and verve. Drawing on the central themes of the holographic universe, non-commutativity and the collapse of superpositions, Žižek evolves a quantum-inspired ontology which reinvents the historical materialism of Hegel and Heidegger – and compels a brutal, often darkly funny, inquisition into the chances of radical emancipatory acts today. Quantum History takes the reader from the absolute contradiction of the primordial void through quantum oscillations to our ordinary reality, weaving in Lacan and Deleuze, Rovelli and Schelling, opera, cinema, sex and war. Žižek is at his sharpest, saddest, most provocative best as he demonstrates that there is no way of extracting ourselves from the texture of history, no neutral position from which the workings of the world can be observed transparently – we must act from a contingent, complex and inscrutable political moment, in sadness and in doubt, but defiantly. https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/quantum-history-9781350566439/
650			_aPhilosophy
650			_aDialectical Materialism
650			_aHegelianism
650			_aHistorical Materialism
650			_aPolitical Philosophy
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